IDCases (Jan 2021)

Cavitary pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma in AIDS

  • Shungo Yano,
  • Sayato Fukui,
  • Akihiro Inui,
  • Toshio Naito

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24
p. e01162

Abstract

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Many different pulmonary diseases occur in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. This was a case of a cavity lesion, although differentiation was extremely difficult pictorially. This was a rare case that led to a definitive diagnosis because the cavity lesions were complicated by pneumothorax, and we could perform a biopsy.

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